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Care and feeding of living hinges
. Molded-in hinges aren't new, but designers under the gun to consolidate parts and eliminate assembly steps are taking a closer look at molded-in hinges for everything from glove-box bins and tackle boxes to CD cases and electrical connectors. Living hinges can be molded from any PP resin including
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Greases Control Free Motion & Noise (.pdf)
Today's consumers demand more than long life from engineered devices. Whether they're fine-tuning the bass on a stereo, turning on headlights in a car, setting the timer on a clothes dryer, or closing the cover on a cell phone, they expect the potentiometer, switch, gear box, and hinge behind
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Don't Come Unhinged Over Enclosure Design
: info@southco.com. Hopefully this will be helpful. Jim Ford. Product Manager, Hinges and Positioning Technology. reply. Southco ST-12C Counterbalanced Hinges. On July 12th, 2010 Anonymous (not verified) says: Assuming an adequately strong design for a lid and a box, what would be the approximate maximum weight
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Product Line Overview and Selection Guide
Integra enclosures are offered in three basic product lines. They are the Premium Line, the JIC Line, and the Telecom Line. We also have added a Junction Box Line. All enclosures are injection-molded, engineered thermoplastics, designed to provide the best combinations of strength, durability
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Closing In With Polyurethane RIM
Reaction-injection molding can simplify the task of designing good looking and economical medical enclosures. Specialty RIM Group, Polyurethanes Div. When searching for a material for the top cover, reagent box, and enclosure panels for a medical-diagnostic system, Bayer Diagnostics found
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Want More Precise Assembly? Use Fewer Constraints
manufacturing, adjustable, deformation, and constraint-driven design. (See box for illustrations.) Design via the high-accuracy method means using high-precision parts and minimum clearances. Designers can get a precise final product this way. But there can be trouble with assembly and disassembly when
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EETimes.com | Electronics Industry News for EEs & Engineering Managers
medical electronics designs win regulatory clearance and consistently function as advertised. ➔ Download now. Launch Box. Video Design Ideas. Want to win an electric car? CLICK HERE. ARM Cortex-M3 PSoC(R) 5 Design Challenge. Over $10,000 in prizes. Join Today. More EE Times. Subscriptions
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Industry Focus: Medical -- Rethinking the Wheelchair
on its box structure to give it rigidity and keep it from folding.”. After a year and half of design work, which included building nine prototypes, the chair endured four months of FDA-required testing. One of the more rigorous tests involves a doubledrum device. Technicians strap a weighted dummy